Test 12 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned ro…

So was Vice's dress fancy or plain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 541 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned robe, Pelops wins a race, baby Heracles and the snakes, Vice's offer» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 fancy	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 So	cop
3	Vice	Vice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dress	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Vice	case
5	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fancy	nsubj
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 plain	cc
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fancy	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fancy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						so property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Heavy purple wool trimmed with silver and set with stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wool	amod
2	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wool	amod
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wool	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 silver	case
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trimmed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trimmed	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 stones	case
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trim	participle		Heavy purple wool not said here				with silver	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=Theme
2	set	infinitive						with stones	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with stone=Instrument

Option 2

Simple and gray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 gray	cc
3	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Simple	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Gaudy and bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gaudy	gaudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bright	cc
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gaudy	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Covered in gold thread and glittering jewels all over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 thread	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thread	compound
4	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Covered	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 glittering	cc
6	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Covered	conj
7	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 glittering	obj
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 over	advmod
9	over	over	ADV	_	6 glittering	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						in gold thread	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in thread=Theme
2	glitter	gerund		jewels				over property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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